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This is Kindergarten Wolfartsweier, a school designed by Tomi Ungerer and d’Ayla-Suzan Yöndel in Karlsruhe, Germany. But it isn’t any old stinking school that looks like prison for learning. This school is shaped like a cat. It’s even got a slide as a tail! I bet it’s a real fun place to go. Except when kitty gets a hairball. Yeah, definitely don’t want to be around for that. Math class is hard enough without having to listen to a cat hacking the whole time. And here you thought nails on a chalkboard was bad!

If you can keep a house in your pocket, why not store a tent in your sneakers? The Sibling Collective created a pair of sneakers called Walking Shelter that store a simple tent in mesh netting attached to the back. While the concept is functional, it’s hard to imagine that people would actually wear these things… unless sneakers doubling as storage becomes a new footwear trend. “Oh, you got a tent in your sneakers. That’s cool. I got a blow up yacht in mine.”

The Victor Churchill butcher shop in Sydney has been running since 1876 and is now a premier meat market. Take a look inside to see why…

Life is hard. You know it. And talented Romanian illustrator Andrei Lacatusu knows. Inspired by this truth he created a wonderful series of illustration called “Life is Hard”. All illustrations are highly professional executed and surely worthy for your attention. Check them all and choose the most interesting one!

After going Twitter silent since July 24th, Sylvester Stallone screeched back into action today, announcing that The Expendables 3 is dropping Bruce Willis and picking up Harrison Ford. Between Harrison Ford starring and Mel Gibson playing the villain, it promises to be the grumpiest set since Terminator 4. But minutes after Stallone’s Harrison Ford tweet went up, a second tweet seemed to hint that a beef’s a brewing, with Sly tweeting “GREEDY AND LAZY… A SURE FORMULA FOR CAREER FAILURE”. (I’m not sure if Sly always has the caps lock on, or if the keyboard just does that automatically after a certain level of HGH). Either way, the question remains: are Sly and Bruce Willis beefin’? It would sure seem like it, though it’s hard to say how much Bruce Willis’s past history of being kind of a pain in the ass colors that view. And if “greedy and lazy” was meant to refer to Bruce, in Bruce’s defense, I always assumed wanting to get paid lots of money for not working very hard was The Expendables‘ entire raison d’etre. (I used a French phrase here to keep Sly from tearing my arms off and beating me to death with them). The Expendables 3 will be directed by some dude and open at a future date.

Your reaction to this story likely depends on whether you grew up with Run–D.M.C. For those who did and still own a pristine copy of Raising Hell on vinyl, it’s a “about time someone said it” moment. To everyone else, though, it’s a reminder that as people get older, they get crankier and get off my lawnier, even if they’re kind of right. As reported by AllHipHop, DMC, a founding member of the Queens based Hip Hop group Run-DMC, added onto recent criticisms of some of hip hop’s biggest stars in saying, “Lil Wayne [and] Jay-Z ain’t hot, it’s just they’re programmed so many times people are brainwashed.” Throughout the 1980s, Run-DMC provided some of hip-hop’s earliest commercial successes. In his recent statement, DMC also noted that hip-hop has undergone a stark shift from its early epoch as a youth culture. “It was inevitable that hip-hop became commercialized but along the way our power got taken away,” he says. “Now you got the same 12 records on radio being played over and over again.” He’s not wrong, I guess, but he also appears to be coming from the perspective of someone who thinks FM radio is the be all and end all. Getting your song on the radio isn’t as important as used to be, and like Alice Cooper before him, DMC is ignoring the likes of Killer Mike and Young Fathers and Chance the Rapper. You might not hear them on HOT 97 as much as, say, Nicki Minaj, but they’re still greatly shaping the sound of hip-hop in 2013, for the better. Still, “Dumb Girl” is a great song.

Leap of Faith at Atlantis Paradise Island in the Bahamas drops riders 60 feet from the top of a beautifully constructed Mayan Temple at hair-raising speeds into a shark-filled lagoon. Now that’s hair raising!

When Jaws came out in 1975, it essentially created a new subgenre of horror movie: The shark movie. And since it's Shark Week, and as such, we picked out the best of the lot, because some of these, in their own way, are pretty great. Even if that way is unintentional comedy. We're sticking solely to horror movies that involve sharks, and we'll be ranking them from best to "best." Also, we didn't include Jaws because come on. You've seen it. Not all of these will stick to the shark movie formula (essentially, the plot of Jaws stretched beyond all credibility), but often that's a good thing. Really, you'd think some of these mayors trying to keep a beach open would have seen a movie.

Elysium opens this Friday, and Sony released new pictures and a featurette about Sharlto Copley’s character, whom director Neill Blomkamp describes as “a villain you haven’t really experienced before.” Matt Damon takes it a step further by saying, “Sharlto is either the most professional actor around or just the most insane person.” The most insane person? Would the most insane person leave bloodied limbs in the shower and sink of a co-star’s trailer, put blood and dirty underwear on the bed, and leave porn in the DVD player? Uh, nevermind. Check out the featurette and new images below. Could this all be an excuse to post shirtless pictures of Matt Damon? Maybe.

You know, I always found it a bit strange that Bilbo and Frodo decided to trek across Middle Earth on foot, usually just sleeping on the ground wherever they happened to be when it got dark. Aren’t hobbits all about comfort? The finer things in life? Maybe hobbits are just terrible trip planners. The fact that both of them thought cutting through orc-filled mountain tunnels would be a great idea kind of bears that out. Anyways, a Redditor by the name of Samm1t has gone and created something I think Bilbo and Frodo would have very much appreciated — a mini hobbit hole camper trailer! Hit the jump for a few more pics…

Bakersfield, California is well on its way to becoming known as more than just the country’s third-most important pit stop for dirt and Sonic drive ins, as Bakersfield’s own Michael McMaster has built a real-life working replica of Wall E. Or, to put it another way, Johnny 5. According to the video, McMaster, who built his remote control Wall-E bot from scratch, had previously belonged to something called “The R2D2 Builders Club.” I would give anything to attend a meeting of the Bakersfield chapter of the R2D2 Builders Club. I guarantee at least half the meetings took place around a bonfire.

Diablo Cody’s directorial debut, Paradise, hits DirecTV this Friday, something that was only announced last week, via Cody herself on Twitter. It doesn’t seem like a carefully planned roll-out strategy, but I’m wearing mismatched socks right now so I’m not one to judge. It has a limited theatrical run scheduled for October, and stars former non-star star of Dancing with the Stars Julianne Hough as a conservative southern gal who goes to Vegas after getting “barbecued in jet fuel” during a plane crash. She gets to Vegas and meets up with Russell Brand, and they’re already halfway to a Rock of Ages reunion! Ooh, sing some Speedwagon!

Though it threatens to be subsumed by Ender's Game author Orson Scott Card's long history of controversial anti-gay stances, his book is considered by many a landmark science fiction novel, and the upcoming movie adaptation from X-Men Origins Wolverine director Gavin Hood is hotly anticipated. It opens November 1st, starring Harrison Ford and Asa Butterfield from Hugo, and today we have not a full trailer, but a shorter teaser for the full trailer. Nonetheless, as you'll see, it's more than enough to prove that Ender's Game contains all of the things that you've come to require of a sci-fi action movie!

On Saturday night, HBO will air the new original film Clear History, starring Larry David, Bill Hader, Jon Hamm, Kate Hudson, Michael Keaton, Philip Baker Hall, Eva Mendes, JB Smoove and Danny McBride, and I assume that all of us comedy nerds are going to laugh ourselves into dorky slumber. At least, that’s the safe assumption, as it’s very difficult to imagine a film with that kind of cast and written by David, Jeff Schaffer, David Mandel and Alec Berrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrg to be anything but hilarious. Fortunately, HBO has released three new clips to give us a little taste of the HAHAs before Saturday, and I guess these will have to do. If it helps, try knocking yourselves unconscious so that you’ll wake up with amnesia and then watch them all over again like you’ve never seen them before. Sure, you’ll have no idea who those other people in your home are, but you’re better off never dealing with your stupid wiener kids again anyway.

Here are a couple things that happen in the first minute or so of Internet heroes Rhett and Link’s newest video, a Breaking Bad musical starring children: 1) While singing an upbeat intro song, four children use the symbols from the periodic table to spell out “CANCER”; and 2) Child Walter White explains that he is going to begin making the purest rock candy the town has ever seen, then Child Jesse Pinkman (who is AMAZING in this) walks out and the two of them have the following conversation: Child Jesse: Yo, Mr. White. It’s me, your former student, Jesse. I hear you’re breaking bad now. Child Walter: That’s right, Jesse. Wanna take my life savings and buy an RV and make candy in the desert? Child Jesse: Sounds like an awesome decision. And it gets even better — and way, WAY darker — from there. I won’t spoil it for you, but let’s just say that Child Gus Fring is at least as badass as his adult counterpart. A+ for everyone involved.

After receiving a surge of attention and countless messages praising her for her Earth cake, self-taught cook Rhiannon (aka cakecrumbs) decided to try her hand at baking a structural layer cake of another planet—Jupiter. Unlike her first planetary dessert, featuring only one hemisphere, this one would be a complete sphere. Continuously learning from her experimental baking projects, Rhiannon had an easier time constructing Jupiter. She was awarded more room for artistic liberties with the time saved on figuring out how to appropriately construct the cake. As a result, her completed Jupiter Structural Layer Cake is an astounding display, boasting the large planet's detailed atmosphere.

While some artists have mastered the Photoshop brushes to give some of their models a much needed face or eye lift, Russian artist Vadim Andreev uses those from the make-up artist kit. And his results are sometimes so jaw-dropping it’s hard to believe the pictures weren’t retouched! Using only cosmetics, Vadim transforms women into stunning cover girls, and can do an equally good job with carnival make-up as well. No wonder there’s a popular saying in Russia that before you marry, you should take your bride to the sauna first – there you can you can see the real person, without all the cosmetics that can deceive you greatly. It’s an old saying/tradition long before the Photoshop era – so today this sauna test is probably even more important than ever before.

Yarnbombing has been gaining momentum as a form of street art all over the world, but Polish crocheting artist Olek demonstrates what a real challenge is: in mid July she crocheted an entire locomotive in Lodz, Poland, that will be on display through August 19th. This is by far the largest project this New York-based artist has completed. It took Olek and her four assistants 2 days of round the clock work to finish the installation. The artist was so dedicated to the project, that after flying in to Poland she didn’t even have to time change her gown and mask from a ball in London she had gone to!

Italian artist Giuseppe Colarusso, aka Mister Solo, redesigns ordinary objects as playful, nonsensical items in his series titled Improbabilitá, translated as Unlikely. Clearly inspired by Fluxus, Dada, and the works of Marcel Duchamp, the artist presents a whimsical array of everyday objects whose core components have been substituted with opposing elements. By replacing the handles of cutlery and eating utensils with strands of rope, Colarusso redefines their usability and purpose, ultimately rendering the objects useless. Even some of the unique designs like a two-container mug sounds like a good idea at first, but once you really think about it, it's bound to lead to disaster in the form of spilled liquid. Colarusso's unconventional take on the ordinary offers a quirky outlook that aids in defining what the norm is while signifying the importance of design.

These days we take Wi-Fi for granted, this invisible energy field that keeps us all constantly connected wherever we are in the world. But do you know how it was initially created? It was actually the by-product of a fail research project conducted by one John O’Sullivan an Australian radioastronomer. At the time he was trying to detect exploding mini black holes the size of an atomic particle, but instead found a solution that made wireless LAN fast and reliable. Not a bad days work in the office I’m sure you’ll agree. But if we could see it, what would Wi-Fi actually look like? Thankfully Dr. Vogel a professor and former NASA employee teamed up with visual artist Nickolay Lamm to answer just that question.

He’s been labeled by the French authorities as a vandal, even so far as being fined €400 for his actions. But that hasn’t deterred French artist Clet Abraham from prowling the streets of Europe adding his own irreverent twist to traffic signs for the past 2 years. How does is he able to do it? In the depths of the night, a friend gives him a leg up and he quickly plasters the stickers onto the sign before vanishing without a trace into the shadows. Europe’s weary commuters and pedestrians then wake up to his wonderfully inventive work the following morning. His humorous and subversive designs certainly makes the roads and alleyways of Europe a lot more interesting don’t you think? Let’s keep it that way, if you have happen to catch him in the act, turn a blind eye will you?

This black van is fairly unremarkable from the outside but you will be surprised at what it is hiding inside…

Considering the devastating way series two ended, and the trio of disappointments of Benedict Cumberbatch’s Star Trek Into Darkness, Martin Freeman’s The Hobbit (I hate any movie that proves Kevin Smith right), and Steven Moffat’s Doctor Who series seven, the world needs Sherlock more than ever. Thankfully, it’s returning sometime in early 2014, a close enough date that BBC can begin releasing teaser trailers that say nothing and EVERYTHING. In the clip below, we see Sherlock reuniting with all his not-quite-friends-more-like-acquaintances-and-well-wishers, including a mustached Watson, who since we’ve last seen him has apparently joined the adult entertainment industry. That’s certainly going to give the Cumberbitches something to GIF about.

Imagine a rich, evil character from a cartoon. What one motion could that character do to instantly let you know that they’re rich and evil? Meet this asshole, a spectator at Ireland’s Galway Races, a popular horse-racing track we’d write about more on the sports side of UPROXX if had gorgeous breasts or pretended to fight. He’s standing in the background in a rainstorm during a televised interview with betting magnate Barry Orr (as in “we don’t trust the banks, so Barry Orr money”). When his face gets moist, he wipes it … but he does so using A FIFTY DOLLAR BILL. Because he can. Watch the clip below.

DEATH GRIPS R SO PUNK THEY DON’T EVEN SHOW UP AT THEIR OWN SHOWS. "Last night, Death Grips were tapped to play an officially sanctioned Lollapalooza aftershow at the Bottom Lounge in Chicago. They didn’t show up. According to several reports from Reddit and Twitter, after learning that the band wouldn’t play, fans proceeded to destroy their equipment, including a drum kit that was presumably Zach Hill’s. " DEATH GRIPS R SO PUNK THEY TAKE GMAIL SCREENSHOTS OF THEIR FANS’ SUICIDE NOTES. Wait, what? "Before it was announced that the band was a no show, the venue played recordings of Death Grips. The stage was set up with a backdrop that featured a Gmail screenshot of a suicide note, which was allegedly written by a Death Grips fan. Reddit user jadesaddiction transcribed the full note: SUBJECT: ready DATE: July 9 I am ready to take my own life. Many bad experiences led me to this dark void that I am locked in. Maybe by my own hands? I don’t really care anymore. I just wanted to say thank you for showing me the other side. the side that is locked away deep inside a person. I am mad. Mad all the time and depressed all the time. I can’t take it. I’m not afraid of dying but i am afraid that I can’t hear DG in the after life if there is such a thing. I don’t know, but I hope your music transcends to the unknown. A place where DG’s essence exists. A place where art exists. I love art. That’s the one thing that kept me alive? this long. So just to ease minds, DG didn’t “influence” me to do this. this is my own fucking choice. but thanks for making my life a little better. you’re my absolute fave and I will fight the gods if they don’t allow me to follow DG’s efforts can’t see Earth. Anyways, continue doing great things. I love you Stefan, Zach, and Andy. I will be watching. -AJJ " DEATH GRIPS R SO PUNK I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT TO SAY AFTER READING THAT. Sorry.

Coming in at number four on our list of “Reasons We Don’t Want a Ferret,*” is “they will steal the wallet right out of your pocket.” This video justifies that particular item’s high placement on the list. A person who gets their wallet stolen feels like a fool. A person who chases a ferret to get their wallet back has pretty much lost all dignity. *See below:

What can you possibly say about Japan that hasn’t already been said? As a culture and a nation, they are utterly obsessed with the strange, unusual and downright bizarre. If it’s furry, colourful and weird, whatever it is, you can be sure it’ll be a success in Japan. But whilst it seems they deliberately go out of their way to live in a hyper-reality of anime characters, complete with unquestionable scenarios with schoolgirls, cats as pieces of sushi and creating doll versions of themselves, the following bout of oddness doesn’t seem planned at all. In fact, when it comes to these quotes from popular anime shows, you can be sure that something definitely has become lost in translation somewhere. But you know what? That’s what makes them totally Japanese all the same.

Unlike these 32 awful tattoos that will make you lose faith in humanity, gifted photographer Eddie McShane captures 10 unique individuals whose bodies truly are works of art. His subjects vary in age, gender and size yet they all share a deep passion for self-expression. You can be sure that a lot of work and indeed money went into the following tattoos which McShane has documented in vibrant detail. Through his candid & emotive portraits, you’re able to gain a compelling insight into the individual behind the persona and ink. The key figures in their lives, their religious beliefs, their childhood street to even their favourite furry friend – are all etched and documented into their skin. Make sure you view the full series via McShane’s official website: http://eddiemcshane.com/

He’s one of the most iconic and oldest superheroes of all time. the man of steel, the devilishly handsome and decidedly buff Superman. And whilst many of us think of him as virtuous and wholesome character with an iron clad set of morals – we’re sadly been erroneously mislead. You see, it turns out Superman is actually intensely misogynistic, incredibly manipulative, often uncaring and certainly more than a little selfish. Surprised? We were too, until we stumbled upon an entire movement dedicated to “Superman is a dick” created by our friends over at Superdickery They’ve hunted down and collated over 300+ examples of The Man Of Steel at his very worst stretching as far back as the 1940′s! You can see the full list right here, but in the meantime prepare to raise your eyebrows and shake your head in disbelief as we look at 15 damming examples of Superman being a total dickhead.

You know what they say about fashion, that ultimately everything ends up being recycled, reinterpreted and brought back into the mainstream. But it’s hard to have a reference point when the outfits of yesteryear a stacked in boxes and stored in countless attics around the world. That’s The Museum Of Flight why just south of Seattle, USA is such a rare find. Housed within their walls is an historic collection of US flight attendant outfits spanning from 1930 through to 1980. It’s one of the few places that has managed to collect and preserve some iconic uniforms worn by the trusty flight attendant, who’s actual career in the skies spans some 80 years. So what changed from 1930 to 1980? Unsurprisingly pretty much everything! Boots replaced shoes, skirts replaced dresses, brights colour replaced the drab, big hair came and went and yes, even tartan made an appearance. Here’s your unique guide to the style down the aisle as it were – anyone else wish we could bring the good old days back?

DogTV, which launched Thursday on DirecTV, is a 24-hour pay channel providing programming designed and produced to appeal to canines. The channel is divided into three kinds of programs, “Relaxation,” “Stimulation” and “Exposure.” Programs run three to six minutes and give dogs either soothing pastoral scenes or provide them with snippets of everyday life that normally cause anxiety, such as someone ringing the doorbell. Look, I get what you’re trying to do here. I do. You’re trying to point out that there are better things a person can do with five dog-related dollars a month, because dogs may not be 100% biologically designed to sit back and watch television all day. Fine. You’re probably right. But allow me to present this counterpoint: SSSSSHHHHHUUUUUUUTTTTTT UUUUUUUUUUPPP. Shut the hell up. Think really hard about what you want to say, form a cohesive argument, and then take it to your graves without sharing it with anyone. For God’s sake, THERE IS A TV CHANNEL FOR DOGS NOW. TV. FOR. DOGS. Even if its only viewers turn out to bestoned college students, this is an important moment in history. (I’d rank it just behind the invention of the light bulb.) Let’s give it, like, a week before you crap all over it with your “science” and your “quotes from animal experts.” I mean, Jesus Christ, look at this video.

I don’t exactly know why this is true, but the Internet has a deep fascination with Aaron Paul’s pre-Breaking Bad filmography. People rightfully went berserker when Jay Leno revealed that Paul had been on the Price is Right back in the day, and last week, Leno also unearthed Aaron Paul’s (terrible) stint on the original Beverly Hills 90210. Whenever people spot Aaron Paul in a before-he-was-famous role, we get emails. We appreciate those emails. It’s how we found out he was in Birds of Prey. Yesterday, in fact, an awesome reader, FallOutBoy (The Radioactive Man Sidekick, not the Band) sent us screen shots of Aaron Paul in his episode of Bones. Why FallOutBoy was watching first season episodes of Bones, well, that’s a question we probably shouldn’t ask. However, it got me thinking: Let’s just knock this all out at once. Let’s dig up photos from Aaron Paul’s entire career timeline, from 1999 — when he moved to Los Angeles — until 2014, when he’s set to appear in Need for Speed, a movie about a street racer who was framed by a wealthy business associate (I’m far more excited for his 2013 role in A Long Way Down, the adaptation of the Nick Hornby novel). So, without further ado, here’s photographic evidence of most of Aaron Paul’s movie and television roles (at least the ones with available images on the Internet). He has gone through some bad hair phases, folks, but I gotta say, nerdy Aaron Paul is my favorite early Aaron Paul.